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"This book is a musical ethnography of the Duna people of Papua New Guinea. A people who have experienced extraordinary social change in recent history, their musical traditions have also radically changed during this time. New forms of music have been introduced, while ancestral traditions have been altered or even abandoned. This study shows how, through musical creativity, Duna people maintain a connection with their past, and their identity, whilst...

In this work, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how Balinese contemporary music, music kontemporer, embodies the tensions between culture as represented and lived. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an all-encompassing social and musical history of musik kontemporer.

For 31 months between 1979 and 1995, James F. Weiner conducted anthropological research amongst the Foi people in Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. This book contains the transcriptions, translations, and descriptions of the songs he recorded. The texts of women's sago songs (obedobora), men's ceremonial songs (sorohabora), and women's sorohabora are included. Men turn the prosaic content of womenís sago songs into their own sorohabora...

"China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) produced propaganda music that still stirs unease and, at times, evokes nostalgia. Lei X. Ouyang uses selections from revolutionary songbooks to untangle the complex interactions between memory, trauma, and generational imprinting among those who survived the period of extremes. Interviews combine with ethnographic fieldwork and surveys to explore both the Cultural Revolution's effect on those who lived through...

Ludwig Senfl - key figure in the generation of composers between Heinrich Isaac and Orlando di Lasso - began his career in 1498 at the court of Emperor Maximilian I, before he worked at the court of Duke Wilhelm IV in Munich from 1523. Much appreciated by his contemporaries, his central position in early music historiography was anchored by J. N. Forkel and A. W. Ambros. Despite the outstanding quality of Senfl's work, a large part of his oeuvre has...

What can music say about group specifics, especially the specifics of ethnic minorities? In this volume, the focus is on one distinctive aspect of minority culture - collective memory. This is not an imprint of the past: it arises as an image, created from the motives of the past, but shaped by the needs and interests of the present, and various actors participate in its creation. If the medium of remembrance is music - a powerful medium which, thanks...